The Calamities of Thomas the Train at Our House

To any of you who are reading that know my dear Drew, you know that the boy has a severe obsession with all things Thomas the Train. Having said this, we probably house about 200 trains in our house. Some are plastic, some are wooden, but the large majority of our are die cast. For the most part, being die cast proves to be great for the adventures of a little boy. HOWEVER, there have been exceptions, where this material has proven to be a bit of a disaster at our house.


Incident #1: When Alyssa was only about three, she was playing with the trains and became frustrated with the track and sent one sailing through the air, which happened to make contact with my eye. The end result, I ended up with a black eye for about a week ;) Try explaining that story, it is certainly much funnier when your not the one on the receiving end :)


Incident #2: Drew was about 2 1/2 and was convinced that with some "magic gold dust" Thomas could fly. The end result: Alyssa with a small cut on the top of her head.

Incident #3: Two days ago, I had headed to the garage to put some clothes in the wash, and the kids were playing on the stairs, lining up trains at the (toy store) for customers to buy. Just for clarification, the toy store was the slats in between each railing on the stairs, from the bottom to the top. As I am about to put in another load of laundry, I hear a huge crash that seems like it lasts forever, I come running in, to find both kids sobbing. I was concerned that one of them was injured, so once we established that everyone was okay, the situation was quite humorous. Apparently, "one of the trains had fallen off the toy store shelf and came down the wall (where there used to be two hanging vases ) and crashed into one vase, pulling it completely off the wall and causing it to crash and roll down the stairs to the tile entry way and break yet again.

It's a good thing for Thomas, that our son adores him so!!! Who would ever imagine that this object of his adoration would be the center of some stories that will be told and giggled about for many years to come.